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- Lab number
- M-1531
- Field number
- CMC- 19
- Material dated
- charred animal remains; restes d'animaux carbonisés
- Taxa dated
- Phocidae? fat
- Locality
- Cape Tanfield, 11.6 m asl, on a north-facing slope in the Tanfield Valley, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 25 K/12
- Submitter
- M.S. Maxwell
- Date submitted
- September 21, 0097
- Measured Age
- 3480 ± 200
- Normalized Age
- 3500 ± 205
- δ13C (per mil)
- -23.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Predorset; Paléoesquimau; Prédorsétien
- Context
- dripped on sand, 10 cm depth, above permafrost
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Phocidae?
- Comments
- KdDq-13, Site Thirteen: This is a thinly occupied site, satisfactory as a camping location only if sea level is 10 m above present high tide. It is estimated to cover 150 sq m of which 7.4 sq m were excavated. The assemblage appears intermediate between Pre-Dorset and Dorset.